Saturday, December 7, 2019

High-achieving boys, to avoid bullying, use strategies to maintain an image of masculinity, for example becoming bullies themselves, disrupting the lessons, or devaluing girls’ achievements

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Being bullied at school: the case of high-achieving boys. Sebastian Bergold et al. Social Psychology of Education, December 7 2019. https://...

Data from reproductive suppression in humans support the argument that populations subjected to environments dangerous for children yield birth cohorts that exhibit great longevity

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Reproductive suppression and longevity in human birth cohorts. Katherine B. Saxton  Alison Gemmill  Joan A. Casey  Holly Elser  Deborah Kara...

We found that 5‐year‐olds, but not 3‐year‐olds, cheated significantly more often if they overheard the classmate praised for being smart

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Young Children are More Likely to Cheat After Overhearing that a Classmate is Smart. Li Zhao  Lulu Chen  Wenjin Sun  Brian J. Compton  Kang ...

Tinder users prefer a potential partner whom they perceive to be similar in the personality traits agreeableness & openness to experience; no evidence for preferences for assortative mating based on attractiveness

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Never mind I'll find someone like me – Assortative mating preferences on Tinder. Brecht Neyt, Stijn Baert, Sarah Vandenbulcke. Personali...

Sex with another person, with an orgasm, was perceived to have a relatively stronger effect on men compared to women in terms of sleep quality; activity without orgasm was, to men, sleep-impairing

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A national survey on how sexual activity is perceived to be associated with sleep. Ståle Pallesen et al. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Decem...

Australia: Disabled men were at least twice as likely to be attracted to females & males, not experience sexual attraction, identify as bisexual or homosexual & have female & male sexual partners

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Does sexual orientation vary between disabled and non-disabled men? Findings from a population-based study of men in Australia. Anne-Marie B...

Distribution of Facial Resemblance in Romantic Couples Suggests Both Positive and Negative Assortative Processes Influence Human Mate Choice

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Holzleitner, Iris J., Kieran J. O'Shea, Vanessa Fasolt, Anthony J. Lee, Lisa M. DeBruine, and Benedict C. Jones. 2019. “Distribution of ...

Often we say we are Bayesian reasoners; people instead reason in a digital manner, assuming that uncertain information is either true or false when using that information to make further inferences

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Johnson, S. G. B., Merchant, T., & Keil, F. C. (2019). Belief digitization: Do we treat uncertainty as probabilities or as bits? Journal...

Perceptual limits of eyewitness identifications: The distance threshold of reliable identification

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Nyman, T. J., Lampinen, J. M., Antfolk, J., Korkman, J., & Santtila, P. (2019). The distance threshold of reliable eyewitness identifica...

Emotional support hinges on attributions of emotion control: People are more inclined to react supportively when they judge that the target individual cannot regulate their own emotions

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Cusimano, Corey, "Attributions Of Mental State Control: Causes And Consequences" (2019). PhD Thesis, Publicly Accessible Penn Diss...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Homo Politicus Was Born This Way: How Understanding the Biology of Political Belief Promotes Depolarization

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Homo Politicus Was Born This Way: How Understanding the Biology of Political Belief Promotes Depolarization. Alexander Severson, Boise State...